For the Record: Cheers
Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and
awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent
appointments and promotions. Contributions must be
submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone
number.
Bayview Medical Center
Shari Lawson has joined the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology as an assistant
professor. Lawson received her medical degree from Johns
Hopkins and completed her residency in
obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
She was most recently an attending
physician at Susquehanna Obstetrics, Gynecology and Nurse
Midwifery in Bel Air, Md.
Thomas Marshall, manager of adult mental health
programs, was named Mental Health
Professional of the Year by the National Association for
Mental Illness-Metropolitan Baltimore. He
was recognized for his assistance with the creation and
management of Creative Alternatives, a part
of the community psychiatry program that combines mental
health treatment, rehabilitative services
and assistance with daily living. Since its founding in
1992, it has helped long-term, inpatient
psychiatric patients re-enter the community.
Maura Reinblatt has joined the Division of
Plastic Surgery as an assistant professor. Reinblatt
received her medical degree from McGill University and
completed her residency in general surgery at
Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School
and a two-year surgical oncology research
fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Reinblatt recently finished a second residency
in plastic surgery at the University of California, Los
Angeles.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mathuram Santosham, professor of international
health and pediatrics, received the American
Tamil Medical Association Lifetime Achievement Award last
month in Dallas. This annual award,
presented at the national ATMA conference, was given to
Santosham in recognition of his outstanding
contributions and a lifetime of service over his career to
child health, vaccine development and the
development of oral rehydration therapy.
Scott Zeger, the Frank Hurley and Catharine
Dorrier Professor of Biostatistics and university
vice provost, was named the 2008 Wilks Memorial Award
recipient by the American Statistical
Association at the annual Joint Statistical Meeting in
Denver. The award is given to a statistician who
has made a significant contribution to the advancement of
scientific or technical knowledge, developed
an ingenious application of existing knowledge or
successfully fostered cooperative scientific efforts
in matters of public interest or national defense. Zeger
was recognized for his significant
contributions to public health, including his work in
environmental epidemiology, quantifying the health
effects of smoking and air pollution, and co-development,
with colleague Kung-Yee Liang, of
Generalized Estimating Equations. Zeger also has been
recognized as one of the most cited
mathematical scientists of the past decade.
Johns Hopkins International
William Beach, administrator of the Johns
Hopkins-managed Anadolu Medical Center in
Istanbul, Turkey, has been selected for the roster of
candidates for a Fulbright Specialists grant
from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board,
the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs
for the U.S. State Department and the Council for
International Exchange of Scholars. Placement on
the roster makes Beach eligible for selection by an
overseas academic institution that requests the
assistance of a specialist with his expertise.
Charles Cummings, executive medical director
and vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine
International and University Distinguished Service
Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,
was the guest of honor at the seventh International
Congress of Head and Neck Surgery. The 5,000-
member organization held its quadrennial congress in San
Francisco last July.
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Robert H. Kargon, the Willis K. Shepard
Professor of the History of Science, will receive an
honorary doctor of science degree from Great Britain's
University of Westminster at its
commencement ceremony on Dec. 1. The degree recognizes his
services to the fields of science and
technology.
Jessica Turral, a senior psychology major, was
one of five undergraduates out of 1,000
applicants from campuses around the country to win $10,000
from the Liberty Mutual Responsible
Scholars program in recognition of their involvement with a
service or volunteer program that had a
widespread impact on campus or in the community. Turral was
recognized for creating an annual prom
gown collection on the Johns Hopkins campus with the
assistance of members from Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority and Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi
sorority. She collected more than 80
gowns for low-income Baltimore City high school girls and
organized a separate event where Johns
Hopkins students acted as personal shoppers to hundreds of
Baltimore city students.
School of Medicine
Nita Ahuja, assistant professor of surgery and
oncology, has received a $340,000 grant for
colon cancer research from the Littlefield 2000 Trust and
the American Association for Cancer
Research. Ahuja and her research team hope to develop new
staging and possible new therapy for
colorectal cancer patients using DNA methylation changes
that silence tumor suppressor genes. Colon
cancer is the third most common malignancy diagnosed and
the second leading cause of cancer deaths
in the United States.
L. Ebony Boulware, assistant professor of
medicine and epidemiology, won a bronze Telly Award
for a video on the Talking About Living Kidney Donation
study that she and Neil Powe, University
Distinguished Service Professor, are conducting with a
consortium of Johns Hopkins faculty and staff
and the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland. The Telly
Awards, now in their 29th year, honor local
and regional television, Web commercials and nontheatrical
film and video productions. The TALK video
was honored in the health and wellness category.
Steve Cho, assistant professor in the Division
of Nuclear Medicine of the Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, is one of
19 scientists to earn a 2008 Young
Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation. The
award, designed to encourage careers
in prostate disease research, carries a stipend of $75,000
a year for three years, with matching
amounts from an investigator's institution. Cho received
the award for his proposal to develop a new
prostate-specific membrane antigen test, using positron
emission tomography scans for improved
detection of changes in prostate tumor size during
experimental treatment. According to the
foundation, its young investigator awards are inspired by
Donald S. Coffey, prostate cancer research
director at Johns Hopkins for 40 years. Coffey has mentored
more than 50 scientists and physician-
scientists and trained more than 30 of today's leading
prostate cancer researchers.
Paul Christo, assistant professor of
anesthesiology and critical care medicine and director of
the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship and Pain Treatment
Center, has been named a fellow of the
Mayday Fund, created in 1992 to sponsor clinical and
academic research in pain treatment and enhance
advocacy on behalf of chronic pain sufferers.
Jed Fahey, faculty research associate in the
departments of Pharmacology and Molecular
Sciences and International Health, has received an annual
$40,000 grant for the next two years from
the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The grant will fund Fahey's
research into anti-carcinogenic plant
compounds known as glucosinolates.
Arlene Forastiere, professor of oncology,
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, radiation
oncology and molecular sciences, has received a citation
from the president of the American Head and
Neck Society in honor of her major contributions to the
treatment of head and neck cancer. An
internationally recognized expert in head and neck
oncology, she was cited for the development of
combined modality therapy and establishing standards of
care for the management of advanced head
and neck cancer.
Rozalina Grubina, a fourth-year medical
student, has received a $10,000 Physicians of
Tomorrow scholarship from the American Medical Association
Foundation. Grubina is one of only 15
recipients of the award nationwide. Criteria include the
student's financial status, academic standing
and volunteer community service demonstrating commitment to
the medical profession.
Heitham Hassoun, assistant professor of
surgery, has received the Mentored Clinical Scientist
Development Award from the American Vascular Association
and the American College of Surgeons.
Presented cooperatively with the National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute of the National Institutes
of Health, the $50,000 award will support Hassoun's
research into new and more effective therapies
for pathophysiological kidney-lung interactions during
kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury.
Subhashini Jagu, a fellow in the Department of
Pathology, has received an annual $40,000 grant
for two years from the Prevent Cancer Foundation to support
her research into the development of a
cost-effective vaccine to prevent HPV infection, a cause of
cervical and other cancers, from multiple
oncogenic types. Current cervical cancer vaccines are
prohibitively expensive for poor women in Asia,
the third world and elsewhere, and target only two of the
estimated 15 oncogenic HPV types known to
cause cervical cancer, the second leading cause of cancer
deaths in women.
Sewon Kang, an expert on skin aging, has been
named director of the Department of
Dermatology. He joins Johns Hopkins from the University of
Michigan, where he was the Arthur C.
Curtis Professor in Translational Research and director of
its clinical pharmacology unit and its
program for clinical research in dermatology. He also has
been director of the medical students'
education programs in dermatology and was chief of the
University of Michigan Health System's
dermatology inpatient consultation service. He has received
millions of dollars in grants from the
National Institutes of Health, obtained many research
honors and awards and been cited repeatedly
for teaching excellence. A graduate of Williams College, he
received both his MPH and MD degrees
from Michigan.
Wayne Koch, professor of otolaryngology-head
and neck surgery and director of the Head and
Neck Cancer Center, has become president of the American
Head and Neck Society. The society is
the single largest organization in North America for the
advancement of research and education in
head and neck oncology.
Neil Powe, professor of medicine and director
of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology
and Clinical Research, has been named University
Distinguished Service Professor. Also a professor of
epidemiology and health policy and management in the
Bloomberg School of Public Health and director
of its clinical epidemiology program, Powe has trained
hundreds of fellow clinical researchers and
medical students over the past 20 years and been committed
to promoting diversity in medical
research. An expert in chronic kidney disease, his work has
touched millions of patients.
Lillie Shockney, assistant professor of
surgery, obstetrics and gynecology and administrative
director of the Breast Center, has been appointed
University Distinguished Service Assistant
Professor of Breast Cancer.
Levi Watkins Jr., associate dean for
postdoctoral affairs and professor of cardiac surgery, has
been named the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus of Vanderbilt
University. The first African-American to
enroll in and graduate from the Vanderbilt Medical School,
and now a member of the university's board
of trustees, he will be honored at a dinner on Oct. 22 at
the school's Student Life Center.
School of Nursing
Nancy E. Glass, associate professor in
Community Public Health Nursing, has been awarded a
second Research Project Grant (R01) from the National
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
The award, made in the same funding cycle as her previous
$2.9 million award, funds her studies in
intimate partner violence, a problem that annually results
in as many as 1,200 deaths and 3 million
injuries among women in the United States. This five-year,
$1.75 million grant will enable Glass and
her co-investigators from Oregon Health & Science
University to evaluate the effectiveness of
protected leave laws for victims of intimate partner
violence in Oregon and a Johns HopkinsÐdeveloped
workplace training program to educate employees and
employers about the law.
Kathleen White, associate professor, has been
named the first director of the new Doctor of
Nursing Practice program. White, who previously served as
the program's interim director, currently
heads the master's program, coordinating both the MSN
health systems management track and the
MSN-MBA dual degree option. She will continue to lead the
master's program until her successor is
identified.
Whiting School of Engineering
Eugene Shchukin, RESC professor emeritus in the
Department of Geography and Environmental
Engineering, has been awarded the Gold Medal from the
Russian Academy of Education. He was
recognized for his achievements in science, and
specifically for his textbooks on colloid and surface
science, now published in five languages.
Lian Shen, assistant professor in the
Department of Civil Engineering, has been invited to
deliver MIT's 2008 TF Ogilvie Young Investigator Lecture.
The lecture, established in 1996 to honor
MIT's former head of Mechanical Engineering, is an annual
tribute to an individual's accomplishments
and recognition of his or her promise for future
leadership.
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